Idiom
whip through
Meaning
To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I can whip through these emails in ten minutes.”
“She had to whip through the cleaning before the guests arrived for dinner.”
“Although he had to whip through the lengthy report to meet the deadline, he still managed to identify the most critical errors.”
Examples
simple
“I can whip through these emails in ten minutes.”
contextual
“She had to whip through the cleaning before the guests arrived for dinner.”
complex
“Although he had to whip through the lengthy report to meet the deadline, he still managed to identify the most critical errors.”
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